Madariaga
Americannoun
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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
Most notable omission was cultivated dome-browed Salvador de Madariaga, trilingual veteran of dozens of League conferences at Geneva.
From Time Magazine Archive
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The two raced the fields from sun to sun, Madariaga following the flying pigtail of the little Amazon as though it were a flag.
From The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse by Jordan, Charlotte Brewster
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