Philologos is an etymology column about Yiddish, Hebrew and Jewish words and phrases.
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.
[1] However, a month later, Mosaic announced that Philologos had joined the magazine, and his articles would appear biweekly.
Mira Sucharov of Canadian Jewish News wrote in 2016 that "Philologos" is a pseudonym of Hillel Halkin,[5] and Edward Alexander expressed conviction in 2017 that Halkin was the column's author.