Jenny Weleminsky (née Elbogen; 12 June 1882 – 4 February 1957)[1][2] was a German-speaking Esperantist and translator who was born in Thalheim, Lower Austria[3] and brought up there and in Vienna.

She opposed the Zionist movement's call for the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people and ceased all contact with two of her daughters after they left Austria to live in Mandatory Palestine.

[10] She lived there and in Prague[8] (which until 1918 was part of Austria-Hungary) with her husband Friedrich ("Fritz") Weleminsky[2] (1868, Golčův Jeníkov – 1945, London); they married at Schloss Thalheim on 4 December 1905.

Facing Nazi persecution for being Jewish, they found sanctuary in 1939 in the United Kingdom[3][12] where she continued to translate books into Esperanto, wrote poetry and taught English to other refugees.

[12] After the Second World War and the death of her husband, Jenny Weleminsky spent several years in Vienna, returning eventually to London, where she died of breast cancer on 4 February 1957, aged 74.