мать, Анна, была портнихой.
I just wanted to make the observation that in Philip Roth's famous comical novel Portnoy's Complaint (о человеке, который дрочит, как он хочет!) the title character was presumably* a Russian/Slavic Jew descended from an ancestor who worked as a tailor (портной).

* The "presumably" applies to his descent from a Russian-speaking tailor, as Portnoy's Jewishness is beyond doubt -- the novel has been called "the world's longest Jewish-mother joke," etc.