Elizabeth Polack was an English playwright of the 1830s, notable for being the first Jewish woman melodramatist in England.

Contemporary records credit her with five plays, only two of which, Esther, the Royal Jewess; or The Death of Haman and St. Clair of the Isles; or The Outlaw of Barra, have survived.

[2] Esther, with a story taken from the Old Testament, a version of the tradtitonal Jewish Purimshpil and considered in its time to be a type of an "Exotic East" melodrama, was successfully produced in 1835 at London's Royal Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel in the East End[3] (the Pavilion was later a centre for Yiddish theatre in London).

[4] Her St. Clair, however, based on an 1803 novel by Elizabeth Helme, met, when it debuted at the [Royal] Victoria Theatre in 1838,[5] with a modest reception.

[6] Such a family background would have offered support to her writing career, even from her position within a marginalized community.