The overall aim of the project is to study the participation of Jews in the creation of the Swedish national identity. The economic activities of Swedish Jews are analyzed with a particular focus on the capital's public institutions, social networks and cultural identity. In 1870, Sweden's Jews received full civil rights, enabling them to contribute to the development of the capital. By examining Jewish donors and their contribution to the emergence of public institutions in Stockholm from 1870 to 1930, as well as the social networks involved in the process, the project joins international research that has placed economic issues at the center of Jewish cultural studies, and that perceives economic activity as a conceptual entry point to understanding Jewish identity. Using a hermeneutic approach, biographical and architectural methods and network analysis, as well as spatial theory, according to which physical manifestations in urban space reflect individual ideals, the project analyzes the role of Swedish Jews in the creation of Stockholm's modern institutions and understands the importance of Swedishness for contemporary Jewish identity. The project analyzes five public institutions and their buildings, constructed between 1878 and 1928: Stockholm University, the Nordic Museum, City Hall, the Stockholm School of Economics and the Stockholm City Library. The buildings became contemporary topographical symbols of Stockholm's development into a modern capital and the cultural development of the nation.