Philologos

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Philologos is an etymology column about Yiddish, Hebrew and Jewish words and phrases. As of 2024, it has run for about 34 years. Its anonymous author is known to be translator Hillel Halkin.

The column ran weekly for over 24 years in The Forward, appearing there for the last time on December 7, 2014.[1] The previous day Jane Eisner, the then Editor-in-Chief, penned a tribute to, and announced the retirement of, "the person known as Philologos" from The Forward.[2] At the end of his column the following message appeared: After more than 24 years filing his weekly column, Philologos has decided to retire from the Forward. This will be his last column.[1]

However, a month later, Mosaic announced that Philologos had joined the magazine, and his articles would appear biweekly.[3] They started appearing, still anonymously, on January 14, 2014.[4]

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