Andrée Frieze
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| Residence | South West London |
| Occupation | Councillor, transport policy officer, activist |
| Known for | Non Portfolio Officer of Jewish Greens, former Leader of the Opposition on Richmond Council |
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Andrée Frieze (born in Australia approx 1968) is a British Green Party of England and Wales politician, former councillor and transport policy officer. She is a Non Portfolio Officer of Jewish Greens and a member of Kingston Liberal Synagogue, whihc is formally Zionist.
Family
She married Shimon Morad in November of 1993 in Kingston Upon Thames.[1] Shimon is an 'Israeli ' citizen and she says 'I met my husband. In India. As you do, when you’re travelling after Uni, or in his case, the army.' [2] this confirms that Morad was in the genocidal occupation forces.
She gives the following account of her childhood and her fascination and eventaul conversion to Judaism:
- Having a surname like mine I couldn’t help but wonder about it from an early age. Thus, I grew up in the knowledge that Frieze is a shortened version of Frieszenski (a spelling no one has ever confirmed) and that my paternal great, great grandparents appeared in Leeds in 1870 giving Russia as their birthplace. The family story was, they were Russian- Polish Jews who came to England for a better a life. This was all we knew, and pretty much all we have ever been able to find out.
- I didn’t meet my grandparents until I was nine, when we went back to Australia for the first- time since emigrating to London in 1970. My grandfather, Grieg Frieze, called himself a ‘yiddisha kopf’ and had lots of Jewish sayings, but beyond that our family were secular and/or atheist. His mother was originally Irish Catholic, his wife was of English extraction, while my mum’s family was an English/Scottish/German mix.
- Why my surname and my Jewish ancestors made more of an impact on me as a child than my other family members I don’t know, but they did. It particularly influenced my choice of reading material as I was often drawn to books about WW2 and the Holocaust. But, actually investigating Judaism as a faith was not something I thought of doing.[2]
- ↑ First name(s) Andree M Last name Frieze Marriage quarter 4 Marriage year 1993 Registration month 11 MarriageFinder™ Andree M Frieze married one of these people Shimon Morad Spouse's last name Morad District Richmond upon Thames District number - County Surrey Country England Volume - Volume as transcribed 14 Page number 967 Record set England & Wales Marriages 1837-2005 Category Birth, Marriage, Death & Parish Records Subcategory Civil Marriage & Divorce Collections from Great Britain, England
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Andrée Frieze My Journey to Liberal Judaism December 30, 2018.