Dr. Yuri (Amir) Radchenko is a senior lecturer in the Department of Oriental Philology at Volodymyr Vernadsky Taurida National University, a researcher at the Mykola Hayevoy Modern History Center at the Ukrainian Catholic University, a senior lecturer at the International Interdisciplinary Certificate Program in Jewish Studies at the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, and the cofounder of the Center for Interethnic Relations Research in Eastern Europe (Kharkiv, Ukraine). His current research project is on “Jewish-Karaite-Muslim Relations in Ukraine during the Nazi Occupation (1941-1944).”
Dr. Radchenko was a post-graduate student at the Vasyl Karazin Kharkiv National University. His dissertation examined “The Nazi Genocide of the Ukrainian Jews in the Military-Administered Area (1941-1943).” His academic interests include the history of the Holocaust, Ukrainian-Jewish and Jewish-Karaite-Muslim relations in Ukraine, collaboration with Nazis in Eastern Europe, and the history of right-wing radical movements in Europe from the 1920s to the 1940s.