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At times, Adler lived with her father who had moved to a nearby hotel. my utopia, and the place that remained whole and intact and vibrant, even when my own family fell apart.” As her parent's marriage crumbled in the mid-1950s, her mother suffered depression, exhibited erratic behavior, and was hospitalized. Her father, who had been raised a nominal Lutheran, disagreed.Īdler grew up in Manhattan where she attended the progressive City and Country School located in New York City's Greenwich Village neighborhood. Then in 1951, during a family visit to Germany, her mother reconnected with her Jewish heritage and proclaimed herself–and Margot-Jews. Her father, a psychiatrist, would always remain a cipher to her.īoth of her parents came from Jewish families although neither of them had practiced the religion nor celebrated its religious holidays. Her mother was charismatic-Margot likened her to Auntie Mame, beautiful, a renowned political activist, and a beloved mother. Her mother was the daughter of unschooled immigrants, both of whom were dead by the time Margot was born. Alfred Adler had been a contemporary and associate of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung in Vienna, Austria prior to the Second World War. She was the only grandchild of Alfred Adler, the renowned Austrian doctor and psychologist. The only child of Freyda Nacque (nee Pasternack) and Kurt Adler, she was born in Little Rock, Arkansas where her father was stationed at the end of the Second World War. She was a member of the Unitarian Church of All Souls in New York City, a member of the Covenant of Unitarian Universalist Pagans (CUUPS), and a frequent speaker at national and regional Unitarian Universalist events. A self-described Wiccan High Priestess, she was the author of Drawing Down the Moon, a seminal work on neo-paganism in America. A complex woman with wide-ranging interests, she was willing to go wherever her heart and mind led her, even to a fascination with vampires in later years. Margot Susanna Adler (April 16, 1946-July 28, 2014) was a speaker, lecturer, writer, and public radio reporter. General Assembly of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches (UK) Unitarian Universalist History & Heritage Society Margot Adler Dictionary of Unitarian & Universalist Biography