I strongly recommend (edit: this video lecture is better than the one I initially recommended) this video series for a synopsis of what's currently known and believed about the exodus and the hebrews.

As for further reading, try /r/AcademicBiblical:

• The Exodus (please help!)

• Did Moses write the Torah and why do atheist argue he didn't exist?

• Is the scholarly view about the authorship of the Pentateuch and Isaiah due to a bias against prophecy? Or are there valid reasons why Moses or Isaiah didn't write

• Scholarly consensus (or majority belief) on the Bible authenticity?

• J, P, E, D, etc. is it still the scholarly consensus of the Pentateuch's composition?

• How do scholars determine the age and origins of Old Testament stories?

• Isaiah was written by multiple authors. How many other Biblical texts have multiple authors or which texts do you suspect have multiple authors?

• Was the Exodus a real historical event or how are we generally meant to understand it?

There's also a lot on /r/AskHistorians:

• Does the Egyptian history record the ten plagues mentioned in the Bible?

• Historicity of Moses and Abraham

• Is there any reference to Moses, the plagues, or the Exodus in Ancient Egyptian writings?

• It's often said that the Pharaoh in the book of Exodus is Ramses II. How accurate is this, and why is Ramses II the go-to for our conception of the historical Pharaoh in the Exodus?

• My Orthodox Jewish Rabbis, insist that the torah scrolls they read from (five books of moses) are exactly as they were written when given to the Jews by God on Mt. Sinai. Is this possible?

• Do we know who the 13 tribes of Israel were?

• Besides the Bible, are there other historical records of the Jewish being enslaved by the Egyptians?

• What is the oldest Biblical story that is also mentioned by non-Jewish primary sources?

When you search a topic, use google instead of reddit. Try "site:reddit.com/r/AskHistorians searchterm searchterm". You'll usually get a few hits. (Obviously substitute "askhistorians" with whatever sub you're searching.) And please pop in over at /r/AcademicBiblical if you have further questions! We only bite a little.

This has previously been addressed. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1grzha/the_reality_is_that_there_is_no_evidence/

Ultimately you aren't going to get a satisfying answer because the sole piece of evidence is the biblical book itself, and so your take on the historicity of the sorry is more or less entirely dependent on your take on the historicity of the text, or even ancient texts in general. One person may consider important events like that would be remembered, and this we can take it as broadly accurate. Others think that such tales from very distant times are invented to serve the purpose of the tellers. Others think there is a kernel of truth surrounded by embellishment.

Personally I like Ian Morris' take: there is a memory of the highly multicultural world of the late bronze age, but we can't really say anything about the event itself