I'm saying "Bravo" (and thank you) to you guys for uncovering this information.  I have to hand it to you Latvian Wikipedians, we wouldn't have discovered this without you.  Now our Hyman Bloom article will have this information about his true birthplace, as apparently no website discussing him has done this research, but simply printed the Yiddish ethnonym he has given all his life (he probably has never returned to Latvia).  http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q;=%22hyman+bloom%22+brunava  If any of you are interested, maybe you could make a Latvian Wikipedia article, maybe translating the English one, as he's a pretty famous Latvian American.  Thanks again.