Moses Znaimer

Moses Znaimer was born in 1942 to Polish and Latvian Jewish parents who had fled the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and relocated to Kulyab in the Soviet republic of Tajikistan. Following the war, his ended up in Montreal in 1948. He graduated from McGill University in Montreal with a B.A. in philosophy and politics, and from Harvard University with an M.A. in government. Znaimer's career in broadcasting began when he joined the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in the mid-1960s. After being denied the opportunity to pursue his creative vision at the CBC, Znaimer quit and went into private broadcasting.