PHILADELPHIA (REUTERS).- Albert Einstein’s pipe, Irving Berlin’s piano and Jonas Salk’s test tubes are just a few of the historic items in a new museum that celebrates Jewish life in America. The National Museum of American Jewish History, which is in a new building that sits in the heart of Philadelphia’s historic Independence Mall, opens on November 26. It traces the history of Jewish Americans from 1654 — when the first permanent Jewish community began in New Amsterdam — to the present day. It is also the first museum to present the history of American Jews, focusing on themes such as immigration, assimilation and the maintenance of cultural and religious identity in a country where the strictures of Jewish life in the Old World no longer applied. “The American Jewish experience is enormously important to the grand sweep of Jewish history,” said Michael Rosenzweig, the museum’s president. “It has not been well told, and we