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The name Portnoy, sometimes spelled Portnoi, is a Jewish surname of Russian origin. The Russian word 'портной' translates as 'tailor'. The name may refer to:
Structurally, Portnoy's Complaint is a continuous monologue by narrator Alexander Portnoy to Dr. Spielvogel, his psychoanalyst; Roth later explained that the artistic choice to frame the story as a psychoanalytic session was motivated by "the permissive conventions of the patient-analyst situation," which would "permit me to bring into my fiction the sort of intimate, shameful detail, and ...
Vladimir Portnoy (June 9, 1931 – February 19, 1984) [1] was a Soviet gymnast. [2] He is Jewish, and was born in Odessa. [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]Portnoy won a silver ...
Roman Vatslavovich Malinovsky (Russian: Рома́н Ва́цлавович Малино́вский; 18 March 1876 – 5 November 1918) was a prominent Bolshevik politician before the Russian revolution, while at the same time working as the best-paid agent for the Okhrana, the Tsarist secret police. They codenamed him 'Portnoi' (the tailor).
Portnov (feminine: Portnova; Russian: Портнов, Портнова) is a Russian-language occupational surname derived from the occupation of portnoy, "tailor" and literally meaning "<child> of the tailor". Sometimes written as Portnoff or Portnow. The surname may refer to:
Mike Portnoy (born 1967), musician, founding member of American heavy metal band Dream Theater; Princess Superstar (born 1971), musician, father of Russian Jewish descent; Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873–1943), Russian-born composer who immigrated to the US in 1918 and lived there until his death in 1943; acquired U.S. citizenship in 1943
Kravtsov (Russian: Кравцов) is a Russian language surname of Western Slavic origin, krawc coming from the Polish krawiec/kravets, 'tailor' (the native Russian word for 'tailor' is portnoy). The German-language transcription commonly used in the past is Krawtzoff. Notable people with the surname include:
Portnoy was born and raised in Swampscott, Massachusetts, [5] [2] the son of Michael, a lawyer, and Linda, a high school teacher. [6] He is Jewish. [2] [7] [8] After attending Swampscott High School, where one of his classmates was ESPN's Todd McShay, [9] Portnoy graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in education. [10]