I believe…. I think almost all Jewish surnames temporarily truncated during this period of time are due to non-Jewish immigration workers' inability to properly pronounce or understand the last names of Jews as they arrived in America. Immigration workers quickly assigned them a similar, 'American sounding' name as a result. Thus we can conclude that a Jew who temporarily truncated their surname did so only to identify with their Jewish brothers an sisters who had their names shortened against their will.

I think almost all Jewish surnames temporarily truncated during this period of time are due to non-Jewish immigration workers' inability to properly pronounce or understand the last names of Jews as they arrived in America. Immigration workers quickly assigned them a similar, 'American sounding' name as a result. Thus we can conclude that a Jew who temporarily truncated their surname did so only to identify with their Jewish brothers an sisters who had their names shortened against their will.