The Holocaust in American Life is a book by historian Peter Novick published in 1999.

His subject is not the Holocaust, but rather how it has been acknowledged, defined, and spread as an event which requires public remembrance.

It has been reviewed by major journals and discussed in many Jewish magazines.

In the UK the book was published under the alternative title The Holocaust and collective memory: the American experience (Bloomsbury, 1999).

[1] Hasia Diner has described Novick and Finkelstein as "harsh critics of American Jewry from the left" and challenges the notion reflected in their books that American Jews did not begin to commemorate the Holocaust until post 1967.