 but always, always clinging on to Spain in a way that my branch of Judaism never clung on to the heartlands in Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic states. Professor Frances Molino. Most often when the Ashkenazi Jews left to come, say, America, they had no desire to go back. One of the first places they settled was just the other side of the Strait of Gibraltar in Morocco, where they established a new town called Tetouan.