He Was a Violent Neo-Nazi Leader. Then He Found Out He Is Jewish.

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The DNA Test: A Former Neo-Nazi Discovers He Is Jewish

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The revelation builds slowly: a rabbi in Des Moines, drawn to Frank's memoir, keeps nudging him about his unusual surname. Frank posts about it on social media; his family erupts with long-suppressed information, including an uncle who — over dinner at age 14, right after Frank joined the neo-Nazis — told him calmly, 'By the way, you can't be a neo-Nazi, you're Jewish.' Frank dismissed it then as an argument tactic. Decades later, the DNA test returns confirmed Ashkenazi ancestry, arriving nearly 20 years to the day after his exit from the movement. Frank describes the result not with trauma but with a kind of wry completeness: of course. It also, he says, explains the activist streak that never quite left him — something his Jewish friends now attribute to 'a lost Jewish soul floating around doing trouble.'