Date Collected
11-30-2018
Place item was collected
Layton, UT
Informant
Michelle Fitzgerald
Point of Discovery/Informant Bio
Michelle Fitzgerald is my mother. She was born and raised in Kaysville, Utah, as a member of the LDS church. She attended and graduated BYU, where she met my dad. She is a stay-at-home mom, and enjoys crafts of all kinds.
Context
Michelle's maternal aunt is married to a Muslim Kuwaiti man, Ibrahim. Uncle Ibrahim goes to the Middle East and Europe fairly frequently, because he has business interests there. In the 1980s this included a trip to Jerusalem.
Text
" In the 1980s my mother decided she really wanted an olive wood nativity. So she convinced her Muslim brother-in-law to go to the Jewish holy land, Jerusalem and get her a Christian nativity"
Texture
Ibrahim and his wife live in Minnesota, while the nativity's recipient lives in Utah, so it had two significant trips to survive. It is displayed on the mantle every Christmas.
Course
ENGL 2210
Instructor
Lynne McNeill
Semester and year
Fall 2018
Theme
G8: Furniture
EAD Number
7.1.1.15
Recommended Citation
Fitzgerald, Brittany, "The Christian-Muslim-Jewish Nativity" (2018). USU Student Folklore Fieldwork. Paper 599.
https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/student_folklore_all/599