in Philology, Director of the Near and Middle East Department at the Ahatanhel Krymskyi Institute of Oriental Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Practical activity of the UAJS includes the organization of the academic conferences, roundtables, workshops, public talks, and mini courses on Jewish Studies.

In 2015–2016 academic year, in partnership with the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (Canada–USA), the UAJS organized at the NaUKMA the series of public lectures and discussions "Contemporary Antisemitism in Ukraine and Worldwide" by well known researchers, public figures and journalists from Ukraine and abroad: Yaroslav Hrytsak, Yosyf Zisels, Vakhtang Kipiani, Taras Voznyak, Vitaly Portnikov etc.

The event was supported by the Nadav Foundation, the European Association of Israel Studies and the Masoret Kiev community.

[15] In 2020–2021, as part of the UAJ's Yiddish project, with the support of the Omelian Pritsak Center for Oriental Studies at the Ukrainian Catholic University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy and the Jewish Theological Seminary (New York), the association will organize academic language courses and a Yiddish conversation club.