About
Dr. Yurii Kaparulin is a historian and legal scholar who studies Eastern Europe's history and law, with particular interests in Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Human Rights, and International Сrimes.
He is the author of Oleksandr Riabinin-Skliarevskyi (1878-1942): An Intellectual Biography of a Historian (2012), which traces the late Russian Empire, the Ukrainian Revolution of 1917-1921, and Soviet Ukraine in the 1920s and 1930s through the life of a repressed military officer and historian. His current book project is titled The Stratigraphy of Violence: The Kalinindorf Jewish National District between Soviet Collectivization and the Holocaust, 1924–1948, and Southern Ghetto: A Chronicle of the Holocaust in Kherson and the Memory of Genocide.
His research has been published in The Ideology and Politics Journal; Colloquia Humanistica; Holocaust Studies: A Ukrainian Focus; City History, Culture, Society; Eastern Europe Holocaust Studies; and Ukraina Moderna.
Dr. Kaparulin is a co-author of two documentary film projects, Kalinindorf (2020) and UnKnown Holocaust (2026).
Recent publications
"The crime of genocide: Historical aspects, political discussions and memory laws in Ukraine", in Grzebyk, P., & Uczkiewicz, D. (Eds.). (2024). The Russian-Ukrainian Conflict and War Crimes: Challenges for Documentation and International Prosecution (1st ed.). Routledge, pp. 53-70.
"Oral History and the Holocaust – An Introduction", Eastern European Holocaust Studies, vol. 2, no. 1, 2024, pp. 15-23.
The ruined “New World”: Holocaust in the village of Nayvelt, in Ukraina Moderna special issue "The Holocaust in Ukraine: How the History of a Crime is (Not) Written", 2023, 34: 117-140.
