Joseph Mileck

Joseph Mileck was born in Sanktmartin, Roumania in 1922, immigrated to Canada in 1926 and again in 1931. He has a B.A. Degree from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1945), and a PhD. from Harvard University (1950). Joseph was a member of the German Department of the University of California, Berkeley from 1950 to 1991. He has published five books and numerous articles, dealing with such German authors as Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse. He has also edited two cultural...See more

Joseph Mileck was born in Sanktmartin, Roumania in 1922, immigrated to Canada in 1926 and again in 1931. He has a B.A. Degree from McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario (1945), and a PhD. from Harvard University (1950). Joseph was a member of the German Department of the University of California, Berkeley from 1950 to 1991. He has published five books and numerous articles, dealing with such German authors as Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann and Hermann Hesse. He has also edited two cultural-historical books about Sanktmartin, a typical German community in Roumania, and has published a book-length study of that community's dialect. To these scholarly works, published from 1951 to 2003, Joseph has added four collections of his own poetry and epigrams: A Trail of Poetic Reflection (Berkeley, California: Beatitude Press, 2008); A Medley of Piquant Poetry and Edgy Epigrams (Berkeley, California: Beatitude Press, 2010); More Salt and Pepper. Poems and Epigrams (Berkeley, California: Beatitude Press, 2012); and Pensive Pauses. Epigrams and Poems (Berkeley, California: Pensive Oasis Press, 2016). To his many literary bibliographical, linguistic, and socio-political books, Mileck added a critical appraisal of the United States: America. An Empire in Disarray (Berkeley, California, Beatitude Press, 2013). See less