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Philologos is an etymology column about Yiddish, Hebrew and Jewish words and phrases. , it has run for about 34 years. Its anonymous author is known to be translator Hillel Halkin.
However, a month later, Mosaic announced that Philologos had joined the magazine, and his articles would appear biweekly. They started appearing, still anonymously, on January 14, 2014.
For many years, there was speculation about the identity of the author. Mira Sucharov of Canadian Jewish News wrote in 2016 that "Philologos" is a pseudonym of Hillel Halkin, and Edward Alexander expressed conviction in 2017 that Halkin was the column's author.
Halkin confirmed in August 2021 that he penned the columns. Even after confirming his authorship, Halkin continued to write the column without reference to his own identity, saying that Philologos had "an independent status as a fictional character" Halkin invented and "often says things or goes out on a limb by expressing crazy things" that Halkin would not express in his own name.
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