[1][2][3] Jacob Perman was born into a family of rabbis in the town of Zhytomyr in Vohlin, Southwestern Russia (Ukraine).

At the beginning of the 20th century, he organized a proclamation by intellectuals that included: Hayim Nahman Bialik, Jacob Fichman, Shlomo Zemach and the publicist Nat Inver, for the establishment of "The Erez Israeli league for flowering Art"; In the beginning of the third aliyah period, he was one of the organizers of the aliyah on the well-known ship "Ruslan" from the port of Odessa, and he himself boarded the ship and arrived at the port of Jaffa on December 19, 1919.

In the years 1921-1922 he established and managed the first gallery in Tel Aviv called: "The Permanent Art Exhibition in the Land of Israel".

Artworks by non Bezalel artists such as those who originally formed the cooperative like Isaac Frenkel and Joseph Constant also were in the permanent exhibition.

[citation needed] In 1905 he married Sarah Streicher, he was the father of four: Nachman Pereman, a civil engineer and surveyor; Natan Pereman, an agronomist, surveyor and real estate appraiser; Chava Chernov, a school inspector for the Ministry of Education, author of spelling textbooks; and Atida Machlis.