Yaëlle Azagury is a literary scholar and critic. She holds an MA in Comparative Literature from the Université Sorbonne-Paris III, a graduate degree from Sciences-Po (Paris), and a PhD in French Literature from Columbia University. She has co-authored a new translation and critical edition of the French novel Mazaltob, by Blanche Bendahan (Brandeis University Press, 2024), which includes her essay titled “Mazaltob and the Rise of the Modern Sephardi Novel” and which was a 2024 finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in the category of Sephardi culture. She is currently working on a book about Jewish women writers from the Maghreb at the turn of the twentieth century.