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Madariaga

American  
[mah-thah-ryah-gah] / ˌmɑ ðɑˈrjɑ 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

Spain's eminent historian and novelist Salvador de Madariaga covered the ground four decades ago.

From Time Magazine Archive

When Desnoyers came on the place, Madariaga was beginning to lose count of those who were under his dominion in the old Latin sense, and could take his blows.

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

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