10/22/2008-10/26/2008 Promised Land: Exodus and America >>Schedule of Events  >>Film Screening: Uncle Moses (10/22)  >>Escape! Arrival! Disappointment! (10/23)  >>The Greatest Story: Exodus in Words and Music (10/25)  >>Symposium: Promised Lands: The American Immigrant Novel (10/26)  >>Symposium: Exodus: Story of a Nation (10/26)  >>Symposium: Go Down, Moses: The Making of an African American Hero (10/26)  >>Symposium: The Ten Commandments in America (10/26)  >>Tickets & Reservations  >>Parking and Directions  >>Media Sponsor  >>Buy Tickets  Promised Land: Exodus and America 10/22/2008-10/26/2008 Northeastern University Promised Land: Exodus and America is a five-day festival that looks at how various Americans--from the Puritans to African American slaves to new immigrants--have adopted and adapted the Exodus story to meet their own material and imaginative needs. Although Exodus is a story about faith, it is also a political and social narrative, a Jewish story that has been used, borrowed, and retold to suit many other purposes and agendas. It has been an important factor in the formation of American identity – from early colonists who imagined a “New Israel,” to the leaders of the American Revolution; and, to African Americans, who often used the Exodus story to write and sing about the end of slavery, to Jews themselves who described America as the "Promised Land". Presented in partnership with Nextbook. Media Sponsor: Articles & Reviews