The Eternal Road premiered at the Manhattan Opera House on January 7, 1937, given a lavish and spectacular production involving 245 actors, and ran for 153 performances.

Set in a synagogue where Jews hide all night as a pogrom rages outside, the story combines Biblical and pre-World War II Jewish history.

[2] After its initial performances, the first revival took place at the Chemnitz Opera, Germany, and then at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City during the 1999/2000 season (the 100th anniversary of Weill's birth and the 50th of his death).

"[4] In order to present the work as a complete whole "[Musicologist Edward Harsh] and John Mauceri orchestrated some recitatives and passages otherwise not extant.

Out of the heroic stories of old Jewish history Max Reinhardt and his many assistants have evoked a glorious pageant of great power and beauty.