He is also the president of the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies, and is chief editor of Judaica Ukrainica. He is the author of the book “Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls: Identification, Authorship and Historiography”. Last month Chernoivanenko joined the editors of The Odessa Review in a Crimean Tatar restaurant in Kyiv to speak about the development and progress of Jewish Studies in Ukraine.