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nirvana...
i'm not quite sure what you're looking for, so i'll just say a little more, and we'll go from there.
the fundamental anxiety of jewish emancipation was that "those" people weren't really citizens, but Jews first, and Brits/French/German, whatever...as a far secondary idenity. They were imaged as treasonous (the Dryfuss affair is case in point) and as having ulterior motitives that laid outside the state. The irony is that often times they did...to the Zionist movement that formed in reaction to European nationalism that decided that "every people needed a state" and by reverse, decided that every state needed just one people. Britain was for Brits, France for the French, and so if there were going to be Jews, there needed to be a Jewish state.
The thing is that Hitler didn't invent "The Jewish Question." That phrase was long part of European discouse at the time...and assimilation and emigration/expulsion were tried...the reason why the Shoah was called the final solution is that they had tried everything else...all but attempting to conceptually imagine a pluralistic state that acknowledges that people have varying alligiences (even if they all share the same "nationality"), and that they best just start to deal with that.
This link of one people, one state is still present in modern political discouse, though often more lightly put. And we're still having difficulty imaginging that that kind of state that constructively deals with the different alligiences of its citizens.
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For God so loved creation, that God sent God's only Son that whosoever believed should not perish, but have everlasting life.
-John 3:16
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