Rubin (née Lak) Dveira (Dweira) Tsalelyevna (22 November 1917, Vitebsk) — music educator.

Dveira Rubin was the daughter of Tsalel Lak (1890, Daugavpils — 1944, Krasnoyarsk Territory) and Khaya Lak (née Pek, Kagan) (1887, Daugavpils).

In 1937 she graduated from the Riga Public Gymnasium and entered the English College. In 1940–1941 she worked as a secretary-typist at the Latvian office “Glavkinoprokat.” At the same time she continued her studies at the English College. In 1941 she was evacuated to the Urals, where she worked on collective farm labour and taught German in Sverdlovsk Region.

In 1945–1947 she worked as a music instructor at the kindergarten of the SIMZ factory near Sverdlovsk. In 1947 she returned to Riga and worked as a music instructor at the kindergarten of the Inčukalns Fur Farm. From 1948 to 1960 she was a music instructor at Kindergarten No. 1 of the Baltic Railway. In 1952 she graduated from the Jelgava Music College with the qualification of teacher for children’s music schools. From 1962 she worked as a teacher of accordion at Children’s Music School No. 1.

She was married to Ilya Rubin (1904, Rēzekne). Her half-brother from her mother’s first marriage, Ilya Kagan (1909, Daugavpils), emigrated in 1936 to the territory of the present State of Israel. In 1956 her mother emigrated to Israel at her son’s invitation. Her half-sister Golda Gurvich (née Kagan) (1907, Daugavpils — 1941) was killed in the Holocaust. In 1960 Dveira Rubin applied for permission to emigrate to Israel, which was granted in 1965.

Family:

Ilya Rubin (1904, Rēzekne) — husband
Tsalel Lak (1890, Daugavpils — 1944, Krasnoyarsk Territory) — father
Khaya Lak (née Pek, Kagan) (1887, Daugavpils) — mother
Ilya Kagan (1909, Daugavpils) — half-brother
Golda Gurvich (née Kagan) (1907, Daugavpils — 1941) — half-sister
Gerson Lak (1925, Riga) — brother