ABSTRACT
In June 1938, a time of growing worry for Polish Jewry, the Jewish Society for Landkentenish/Krajoznaws two published the June issue of its regular journal, which appeared in two languages, Polish and Yiddish. That month the main theme of the journal was kayaking, and members of the kayaking section filled the issue with articles that described their travels along Poland's rivers and lakes. In the Polish-language section of the journal an editorial note informed readers that just as the staffs was preparing this particular issue, the Polish Kayaking League had begun discussing a motion to expel all Jews from the organization. The Lankentenish idea, devoted as it was to fostering Jewish pride and self-awareness, derived from two major sources. The first was the Polish ideal of Krajoznawstwo. The second source of the Landkentenish idea was the Jewish cultural revolution of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century's, symbolized by the Yiddish writer Yitzhak Leybush Peretz and the historian Simon Dubnow.
