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Peter Novick (July 26 1934 – February 17 2012) was an American historian best known for writing That Noble Dream: The Objectivity Question and the American Historical Profession and The Holocaust in American Life. The latter title has also been published as The Holocaust and Collective Memory especially for non-US anglophonic markets. He was born in Jersey City.Though deemed a precursor Novick was a sharp critic of Norman Finkelstein but also of his opponent Alan Dershowitz.