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Madariaga

American  
[mah-thah-ryah-gah] / ˌmɑ ðɑˈryɑ gɑ /

noun

  1. Salvador de Salvador de Madariaga y Rojo, 1886–1978, Spanish diplomat, historian, and writer in England.


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That book is an idiosyncratic account of the explorer’s life by Salvador de Madariaga, a Spanish historian, who insisted that Columbus was a Catalan crypto-Jew whose family had migrated to Genoa.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Madariaga had concluded Columbus was a Jew, said Morison, “by fashioning a significant pattern of hypothesis and innuendoes unsupported by anything so vulgar as fact.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

“We do not have any official notification from the Vatican about the existence of a complaint of this type,” Josefina Madariaga, director of Opus Dei’s press office in Argentina, told the AP.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 12, 2021

Spanish Philosopher Salvador de Madariaga expressed it better than anyone else.

From Time Magazine Archive

And in a moment of failure and despair, being now thirty years old, he became an employee of Julio Madariaga.

From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster

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