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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

Most notable omission was cultivated dome-browed Salvador de Madariaga, trilingual veteran of dozens of League conferences at Geneva.

From Time Magazine Archive

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