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 Vichy regime 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.
