''Es-Sabah'' ('The Morning') was a

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'. Paris, Les bureaux de l'Argus, 1937. p. 468Mohsen Hamli.
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'. Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World. Executive Editor Norman A. Stillman. Brill Online , 2012. Reference. Retrieved 3 November 2012

History and profile

''Es-Sabah'' was founded and directed by Jacob Cohen. The first issue came out on 1 November 1904. It was the most popular Jewish newspaper in the country at one point. The issues contained between four and sixteen pages. Politically, it served as an organ for philanthropic Zionism. ''Es-Sabah'' carried the byline ''Es-Sabah, seul quotidien israélite du Nord-Africain, le plus fort tirage des journaux israélites de Tunisie'' ("''Es-Sabah'', the only Jewish daily in North Africa, with the highest circulation of the Jewish papers in Tunisia"). By the 1930s ''Es-Sabah'' was the last remaining Judeo-Arabic newspaper in the country. At the turn of the century, however, Tunisia had hosted a vivid Judeo-Arabic press.Houtsma, M. Th.
E. J. Brill's First Encyclopaedia of Islam, 1913-1936
'. New York: E.J. Brill, 1987. p. 868 As of 1937 Simon Cohen was the director of ''Es-Sabah''. ''Es-Sabah'', along with other Jewish publications in Tunisia, was suppressed by the

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in October 1940.Gottreich, Emily.
Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa
'. Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 2010. p. 310 The last issue of ''Es-Sabah'' was published on 14 May 1940.

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