There are so few books being published about Kashubia in the last several years that this edited volume is a very welcome addition. Professor Daniel Kalinowski has assembled a team of scholars and distinguished leaders from Poland, the United States, and Canada who together cover a vast array of interesting subjects connected with the Kashubian experience. The work itself is well-titled as “the phenomenon of the Kashubian emigration, its people, and their centers of community life.”
Kashubia itself is a region in northern Poland. The Kashubian or Kashub population is distinctive in a number of ways. The members have their own language and customs. The group has indeed existed for more than a thousand years. (In 2011, the Polish government reported that Kashubians, 82 percent of them rural residents, numbered about 110,000 in all. This recognition made them Poland's second largest ethnic minority—out of 14 in all. Only ethnic Germans,...
