I was telling some people yesterday that in the mid 80s, when I was a student at Miami, I visited an old bookstore in Cincinnati. It was in an old brick building, and I remember going up the stairs through several floors of books. In terms of volume, it must have been one of the largest used bookstores in the midwest.
How I would love to spend an afternoon wandering around there now. Does anyone know the name of this place and if it is still in existence?
― Steven Groth (fitch12), Monday, 24 January 2005 16:22 (twenty years ago)
I grew up in Oxford, and didn't often get to Cincinnati for bookstores (more for concerts, Doc Martens, and sneaky cigarettes), but this link lists a bunch of used bookstores in Cincy, maybe one of them will ring a bell:
http://www.geocities.com/athens/4824/na-midwe.htm
― zan, Monday, 24 January 2005 18:09 (twenty years ago)
It was either Acres of Books (now defunct), or The Ohio Bookstore (still a going concern). Both of these were in downtown Cincinnati in the type of buildings you described.
My office will soon be moving close to The Ohio Bookstore. I can't wait!
― Don Buske, Monday, 24 January 2005 18:32 (twenty years ago)
one year passes...
Review MIDRASH Book
Posted By: Barry Wolf
Date: Wednesday, 15 December 2004, at 8:56 a.m.
MIDRASH AND WORKING OUT OF THE BOOK (2004, Author House, Bloomington Indiana)G David Schwartz review by Barry Wolf
Jewish studies have been interesting and unique. The rabbis of old were both intelligent and interesting. G David Schwartz, a former interfaith propagandizer had made a book which is a unique reversal of, well the biblical text as well as some new remarks on what is ripened between the good old days and the brilliant ones to come.
Schwartz traces the art of Midrash into sand through transcendent passages of not just religion but life in all its aspects.
His studies range from intensive analysis to polite ribbing on the bible. He analyses Midrash, the Torah (Bible) in fact, in an out of terms of scholarship impinged and desired with humor. One little chapter, My Early Years, speaks as Abraham beginning as a toy maker, an idol maker. And the fictionalized piece intertwines true biblical facts with humorous sequences of story.
Schwartz also has a parody of tales in the Talmud, the official rabbinic writings. In one, the tale of Rachel is told with delightful teasing. Schwartz does not simply invent fiction but fictionalizes other stores to become new, unique, and interesting to modern society.
Though meaningful essays, interesting and humorous parables and copes of on line discussion in humor filled transcripts, Schwartz does something like the rabbinic enterprise: makes causal live related to the
The abstraction of what intellectual life is made into is transferred and transpired into a new way to learn that which is true and that which is hidden in these truths. Schwartz makes the work of Midrash into a quite joyous and quite necessary way of thinking and acting into new and better thinking; and thoughts I may extrapolate, make living more interesting. Schwartz has made such an interesting and interesting and tantalizing book that any few criticisms I may have are just not worth mentioning.
― G David Schwartz, Wednesday, 25 January 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)