Society of Young Kashubians
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The Society of Young Kashubians was an association founded in 1912 in Gdańsk
Gdansk
Gdańsk is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, at the centre of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.The city lies on the southern edge of Gdańsk Bay , in a conurbation with the city of Gdynia, spa town of Sopot, and suburban communities, which together form a metropolitan area called the...

 (Poland
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

). Its leader was Dr. Aleksander Majkowski
Aleksander Majkowski
Aleksander Majkowski was a Kashubian writer, poet, journalist, editor, activist, and physician. He was the most important figure in the Kashubian movement before World War II...

, a well-known Kashubian writer and poet. Apart from him, the members of Sociaty of Young Kashubians were Jan Karnowski and priest Leon Heyke. The basic goal of the association was to wake up an ethnic self-awareness among Kashubians
Kashubians
Kashubians/Kaszubians , also called Kashubs, Kashubes, Kaszubians, Kassubians or Cassubians, are a West Slavic ethnic group in Pomerelia, north-central Poland. Their settlement area is referred to as Kashubia ....

, to promote the knowledge about them and to connect them with the Polish
Poland
Poland , officially the Republic of Poland , is a country in Central Europe bordered by Germany to the west; the Czech Republic and Slovakia to the south; Ukraine, Belarus and Lithuania to the east; and the Baltic Sea and Kaliningrad Oblast, a Russian exclave, to the north...

 scientific movement. Young Kashubians published their literary works in the "Gryf" (The Griffon) magazine. Their motto was What is Kashubian is Polish at the same time - it expressed the thought that in spite of linguistic differences (Kashubians speak Kashubian
Kashubian language
Kashubian or Cassubian is one of the Lechitic languages, a subgroup of the Slavic languages....

), they are an indispensable part of the Polish nation, which is confirmed by common history, culture and religion.

Literary works

The literary works of Young Kashubians was based primarily on Kashubian mythology
Mythology
The term mythology can refer either to the study of myths, or to a body or collection of myths. As examples, comparative mythology is the study of connections between myths from different cultures, whereas Greek mythology is the body of myths from ancient Greece...

 and tradition. They criticised the increasing superstition and drunkenness among Kashubians, which is shown inter alia in an epic poem of Majkowski called Jak w Koscérznie kòscelnégò òbrelë abò piãc kawalerów a jednô jedinô brutka (1899) and in a book of poetry of Jan Karnowski called Nowòtné spiéwë.
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