The Cannibal Galaxy Author:Cynthia Ozick In astronomy, a cannibal galaxy is a vast colony of stars that devours smaller ones. With this metaphor Cynthia Ozick suggests something of the fate of the Jewish people in modern Europe. — The protagonist of this story is a French-Jewish survivor of Nazi-occupied France, now the principal of a school somewhere in the Midwest. He has ... more »so calcified his heart that he fails to recognize the blossoming prodigy that would fulfill his dreams.« less