PC: An Ashkenazi state in Central or Eastern Europe?

Is it possible with a pre-1900 P.O.D. to create a distinct Ashkenazi Jewish national identity, eventually leading to a European Jewish state with Yiddish as an official language?

Ideally it would last for a generation or two without immediately collapsing and/or getting swallowed up by a revanchist empire (i.e. it's not, for lack of a better term, a "flash-in-the-pan" like many of the short-lived states that popped up after OTL World War I)
 
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It's going to be a bit hard, giving that Jewish national movements in the XIXth and early XXth, at the exception of Zionism, tended to be a-territorial and more focused on a network of communauties and how to strengthen this (among Jewish socialist movement, the idea of national-autonomy for instance, that stressed the individual or communal belonging to a national identity, rather than territorial).

A distinct Jewish national identity, there, would rather be non-territori,and therefore not tied to a state : the best I could see would be with a Bolshevik Russia still in the game but with a slightly different outlook on national policies (while close to the one that existed IOTL), creating a socialist autonomy for Jews not in south-eastern Siberia, but in, Crimea Ukraine or Belarus : it was began IOTL with Jewish autonomous raions and Jewish communities in these regions, but didn't really worked out (it displeased local population and authorities, and Moscow both wanted to avoid this, and to possibly reinforce the Amur countryside against foreign claims).
 
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